July 18, 2013. Ural Airlines has rendered its services to 2,098,586 passengers since the beginning of the year, the airline’s press service reports. In January-June, 15,101 flights were operated, including 5,303 international flights, 6,295 domestic flights, and 3,503 flights to the CIS member states. Ural Airlines’ passenger traffic rose by 24% in the six months of 2013 compared with the first half of 2012. The company’s total passenger turnover came to 4,983,942,000 passenger-kilometers. As for May-June 2013, the passenger turnover increased by 24% against a year earlier. Ural Airlines

July 18, 2013. Experts from Sverdlovsk Region Hygiene & Epidemiology Center’s Consumer Rights Department report a seasonal increase in the number of consumers’ complaints relating to the quality of tourist service. Most complaints had to do with incomplete and inaccurate information on the service offered (namely, the particulars of accommodation and board) and with the quality of service offered in the host country. The Consumer Rights Department reminds the travelers once again that during a high season, customers need to be particularly attentive when choosing a tourist service.

July 18, 2013. Yekaterinburg received 207m RUR worth of non-tax revenues in June 2013. Yekaterinburg Council’s press service reports that this came from privatization fees (77.45m RUR), advertising (12.74m RUR), rent (98.9m RUR), and dividends (21.55m RUR). All in all, Yekaterinburg budget’s revenues are expected to come to 35.6bn RUR in 2013.

July 16, 2013. The Nevyansk Tower Museum is now joining a multimedia contest Russia 10: the contest is aimed at selecting Russia's ten most recognized tourist landmarks. 'At the moment, Nevyansk Tower is in the 58th place, but the voting situation changes every day. We have to make every effort to make sure this symbol of the Urals becomes the symbol of Russia as well,' Tourism Development Center Director Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Sverdlovsk Region's Culture Minister Pavel Krekov, this museum meets all the necessary

July 16, 2013. STM-Service, a daughter company of Sinara-Transport Machines, is going to do operation and maintenance of Russian Railways' locos run by Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny depot; such a decree was signed by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. Under this document, STM-Service is now given access to the facilities, buildings, and technological equipment of Sverdlovsk Locomotive Repair Depot and provides full maintenance of its fleet of locos. The depot currently operates over 300 2ES6 and VL11 locos and about 50 TEM18 and TEM7A locos.

July 16, 2013. Ural Airlines is now offering a special price range on its Dubai-bound flights. Starting July 16, 2013, appealing prices will be offered on round trip tickets from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Krasnodar, and Myneralnye Vody to Dubai and back, the air carrier's press service reports. Those who like planning their holidays in advance can benefit from Ural Airlines' special price offers: if you book a round trip ticket to Dubai 61 or more days before the flight, the price will come to 12,340 RUR; if you book 31 to 60 days in advance, the tickets

July 16, 2013. ChTPZ Group is now among Russia's top five pipe manufacturers, according to the Rating of Russia's Leading Metal Goods Producers and Suppliers in the First Half of 2013. This rating was carried by a metallurgical journal Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt. ChTPZ Group's metal goods trading division, Uraltrubostal Trading House, is among the top ten trading houses set up by the manufacturing companies in order to sell their produce, the Group's press service reports. The rating is based on the findings of a questionnaire completed by metal goods customers, a survey

July 16, 2013. 388,700 sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-June 2013, which was 7.8% more than in January-June 2012. 3,957 apartments were built (compared with 4,124 apartments in January-June 2012), SverdlovskStat reports. A number of private individuals used their own savings and borrowed funds to put up 240,400 sq m worth of housing, which is 23.1% more than a year earlier. Private houses made up 61.8% of all the housing construction (compared with 54.2% in January-June 2012).

July 16, 2013. The Nevyansk Tower Museum is now joining a multimedia contest Russia 10: the contest is aimed at selecting Russia's ten most recognized tourist landmarks. 'At the moment, Nevyansk Tower is in the 58th place, but the voting situation changes every day. We have to make every effort to make sure this symbol of the Urals becomes the symbol of Russia as well,' Tourism Development Center Director Elmira Tukanova said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. According to Sverdlovsk Region's Culture Minister Pavel Krekov, this museum meets all the necessary

July 16, 2013. STM-Service, a daughter company of Sinara-Transport Machines, is going to do operation and maintenance of Russian Railways' locos run by Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny depot; such a decree was signed by President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Sinara Group's PR Center reports. Under this document, STM-Service is now given access to the facilities, buildings, and technological equipment of Sverdlovsk Locomotive Repair Depot and provides full maintenance of its fleet of locos. The depot currently operates over 300 2ES6 and VL11 locos and about 50 TEM18 and TEM7A locos.

July 16, 2013. Ural Airlines is now offering a special price range on its Dubai-bound flights. Starting July 16, 2013, appealing prices will be offered on round trip tickets from Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Krasnodar, and Myneralnye Vody to Dubai and back, the air carrier's press service reports. Those who like planning their holidays in advance can benefit from Ural Airlines' special price offers: if you book a round trip ticket to Dubai 61 or more days before the flight, the price will come to 12,340 RUR; if you book 31 to 60 days in advance, the tickets

July 16, 2013. ChTPZ Group is now among Russia's top five pipe manufacturers, according to the Rating of Russia's Leading Metal Goods Producers and Suppliers in the First Half of 2013. This rating was carried by a metallurgical journal Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt. ChTPZ Group's metal goods trading division, Uraltrubostal Trading House, is among the top ten trading houses set up by the manufacturing companies in order to sell their produce, the Group's press service reports. The rating is based on the findings of a questionnaire completed by metal goods customers, a survey

July 16, 2013. 388,700 sq m of housing was commissioned in Sverdlovsk Region in January-June 2013, which was 7.8% more than in January-June 2012. 3,957 apartments were built (compared with 4,124 apartments in January-June 2012), SverdlovskStat reports. A number of private individuals used their own savings and borrowed funds to put up 240,400 sq m worth of housing, which is 23.1% more than a year earlier. Private houses made up 61.8% of all the housing construction (compared with 54.2% in January-June 2012).

July 15, 2013. President of American Chamber of Commerce in Russia Andrew Somers says that Sverdlovsk Region authorities are available for communicating with the foreign investors; this was the statement he made at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition in the course of a round table discussion on Russia’s investment appeal. Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Administration reports that the round table discussion participants pointed out Sverdlovsk Region’s excellent geographic location: this is actually the core of the country. The area’s investment image is now being shaped

July 15, 2013. July 11 was the first day of the Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum Innorpom 2013. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev attended the business part of this large-scale international event. Following a plenary session on Global Strategies, he welcomed the participants of Ural-Africa, an international economic forum that is taking place in Yekaterinburg simultaneously with Innoprom, Yekaterinburg Administration’s press service reports. ‘The Urals are a unique part of our country where the two parts of the world, Europe and Asia, come together in a

July 15, 2013. Ural Airlines presented a number of its new IT services for passengers at the international exhibition Innoprom 2013, the airline’s press service reports. Ural Airlines’ Deputy Director-General Alexei Fomin spoke about the company’s promising developments. For one, he presented the air carrier’s new online check-in system based on the Amadeus Altea platform, the company’s upgraded website, and a new ticket booking solution that makes it possible to book quickly and reliably. ‘My Office’ option is also one of the leading projects: it will be based on the CRM Oracle and Amadeus

July 15, 2013. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev talked about improving the living standards in and the industrial development of Sverdlovsk Region through a number of large-scale international projects; this discussion took place during their bilateral meeting in Yekaterinburg. According to Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department, Dmitri Medvedev feels there should be a direct connection between the work done on promoting Yekaterinburg’s application for the EXPO 2020 exhibition and the future up-to-date, highly

July 15, 2013. ChTPZ presented a project on how the authorities, the armed forces, and the business community could collaborate at the Innoprom 2013 exhibition. According to the company’s press service, the project dwells on a new-generation army of workers. ‘Take ChTPZ, for instance. In this company, yesterday’s high school students come to continue their studies at the Education Center, where they can learn the basics of ‘white metallurgy’ using the most advanced equipment and support from skilled teachers. They get their diplomas and then attain full maturity by serving their terms in the

July 12, 2013. The first resident of Sverdlovsk Region-based Titanium Valley special economic zone started construction jobs on the site. Sverdlovsk Region Government Press Service & Information Department reports that Stroydiesel-Composite is now doing the vertical layout of section 16, so by the end of the summer, the planning will have been completed, and a fence around the resident's industrial site will have been built. Spetsuniversalstroy is acting as the contractor for the project. According to the company director Valery Fadiyev, full-scale construction jobs will begin in

July 12, 2013. A presentation of ACM-ICPC 2014, a computer programming championship for student teams, was given at Yekaterinburg's stand at the Ural International Industry & Innovations Exhibition/Forum, the city council's press service reports. Ural Federal University First Vice Rector Dmitri Bugrov, who is in charge of coordinating the contest, told the visitors to the stand that this Mundial would be held on July 22-25. This year, Saint Petersburg offered the site for holding the ACM-ICPC, and next year, the Urals' capital will take over from the Northern Capital. Every